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Sup Ct rules Girard Coll must admit Negroes since bd operating coll is state agency, W A Foust and R Felder cases; pres Cooper ready to comply U bd so orders; bd atty says state ct must issue instructions; Mayor Dilworth and A L Freedman handled case for Phila; hail ruling
Eisenhower names flooded dists major disaster areas; Sabine crest near record; 11 drownings reptd; more rains predicted; map; illus
Cunningham, Sharkey, Kreutzer conf; Cunningham holds he never knowingly violated integrity of office; sees full vindication; scores charter conflict-of-interest sec vagueness
USSR warns US must bear responsibility for 'grave consequences' that might develop from Jordanian crisis; calls 6th Fleet move mil demonstration against Arabs; sees 'plot' in moves by Iraq and Israel to invade Jordan; links crisis to Eisenhower Doctrine and Baghdad Pact
reptdly refuses to meet with leaders of Egypt and Syria; Turkish troop movements reptd factor in restraining Syria
1957Wonder Mike, American rapper and songwriter[†]
Michael Anthony Wright, known professionally as Wonder Mike, is an American hip hop recording artist and member of the Sugarhill Gang. The group was part of the hip hop movement in the 1970s and 1980s.
1957Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.[†]
The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the full title of which is the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, is a 1956 United Nations treaty which builds upon the 1926 Slavery Convention, which is still operative and which proposed to secure the abolition of slavery and of the slave trade, and the Forced Labour Convention of 1930, which banned forced or compulsory labour, by banning debt bondage, serfdom, child marriage, servile marriage, and child servitude.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]